How Many of Your Ancestors Appear in the SSDI?

Michael Neill at RootDig asked the question: how many of your direct ancestors appear in the Social Security Death Index?

His total was seven, and Blaine Bettinger at The Genetic Genealogist has eight. Knowing that my family has been particularly long-lived in recent generations, I thought that I might fare a little better:

So, a grand total of thirteen (13!) of my direct ancestors appear in the Social Security Death Index. The oldest at her death was my great-great-grandmother Mabel L. Thompson, who died during my freshman year of high school, just shy of her 103rd birthday! The earliest birth was Florence Dennis, born on 17 July 1881, and the earliest death was my great-great-grandfather Joe Shipe, who died in January 1963.

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